Conrad Hilton

Conrad Nicholson Hilton (25 December 1887-3 January 1979) was an American hotelier and the founder of the Hilton Hotels chain. He came to have a net worth of $1 billion, worth $3.45 billion by 2019.

Biography
Conrad Nicholson Hilton was born in San Antonio, New Mexico Territory on 25 December 1887, and, during his early twenties, he served as a Republican representative in the first New Mexico Legislature. He served in the US Army for two years during World War I, and his father died in a car accident while Hilton was deployed in France. During the 1920s, he began to buy hotels in Texas and came to expand into California, Chicago, and New York during the 1930s and overseas from the 1950s to the 1960s. He died in Santa Monica, California in 1979 at the age of 91.